Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/18/04:30:26
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:01:39 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Yoav Shadmi wrote:
>> If I'm not mistaken the COFF binaries (produced by DjGPP) have
>> big-endian byte ordering (i.e. the most significant byte/word comes
>> first) in them, while most x86 binaries (Like those produced by Borland
>> C) use the little-endian ordering.
>If I understand correctly the original message, the order of bytes in the
>COFF binaries themselves has nothing to do with the problem. The
>original message described a program which, when compiled with Borland
>and DJGPP produced different results writing integer values to a binary
>file. The format of the executable file has nothing to do with that.
why wouldn't it?
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